Books with author Layne Johnson

The book begins with a synopsis and introduction of the 18 chapters within the text. The author starts the text with his life, his close call with death and his experiences that developed him as a leader. He presents how racism impacted his life and his many battles he had to endure for promotions just to stay even with his peers. The book continues with a detailed analysis of leadership, what it is, what it is not, who are leaders, and how and why leadership exists. Networking and Perception is covered next to illustrate the humanistic factors which aid the advancement or impediment of leaders within organizations. The transcendental spiritual nature of leadership is discussed to detail how nature and humans are linked and why humans were anointed to lead. The application of leadership is then discussed with timing, labor relations, group behavior, and disciplining employees being presented to provide working principals that can be applied in the work place to lead people to organizational objectives. Courage is discussed as a factor that trumps all factors that inspires people to high performance. The author explains the importances of money and how it alone impacts every American but yet our education system spends very little time educating Americans about our financial system. A list of financial sources is also provided to assist readers with financing college. The text ends with a wrap-up of the subjects covered to be used as a quick reference to engage while on the run.

‘IT WASN'T CIVIL’ is not a History book. It is a brief and interesting look at a dark period in American history. A young country was struggling to stay united but being torn apart because of strong conflicting beliefs over slavery and how much power the government should have over individual states’ rights.‘IT WASN'T CIVIL’ was written for my 12-year-old grandson. He asked me to write a book that would help him learn about the Civil War since he wasn’t learning about yet it in his school. So for Charles William Johnson Jr. and other kids like him, here is a brief look at some of the more influential people involved in, events surrounding, weapons used, battles fought, and a few little-known interesting facts about the war fought on American battlefields that pitted brother against brother, friend against friend and sometimes, Father against son.